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Getting StartedSign up + first key

Sign up + first API key

Two minutes start-to-finish. By the end you’ll have an account and a working API key.

1. Create your account

Go to portal.scrapewise.ai . On the landing page, click Sign up.

You can sign up with:

  • Email + password — Standard email/password registration. Click the verification link in your inbox.
  • Google — One-click via Google sign-in.

Once signed in, the portal opens to the Scrapers page (empty until you create your first one).

2. Mint your first API key

Click your avatar / profile (top-right) → Settings → API Keys.

You’ll see a button labeled Create new key. Click it.

A dialog opens asking for:

FieldWhat to enter
NameAnything descriptive — e.g. my-laptop, prod-server, claude-desktop. The name is local-only; it just helps you identify keys in the list later.
ScopePick one of USER, LLM_READ, LLM_FULL. See Scopes for the full matrix. For a first key for yourself, pick USER. For Claude / MCP, see MCP quickstart.

Click Create.

The dialog now shows your key. It looks like:

sw_live_abc1234.<a long random secret>

Copy it now. Scrapewise stores only a hash of the secret — you cannot view it again after closing the dialog. If you lose it, you’ll need to mint a new one and revoke the old.

3. Verify the key works

A quick test — replace <YOUR_KEY> with the value you just copied:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_KEY>" \
  "https://portal.scrapewise.ai/api/scraper-api/api/key/whoami"

You should get back JSON like:

{
  "customerRef": "...",
  "scope": "USER",
  "prefix": "abc1234",
  "name": "my-laptop"
}

If the response is 401 Unauthorized, the key isn’t being sent correctly — check the Authorization: Bearer prefix (note the space) and that you copied the entire sw_live_<prefix>.<secret> string.

4. What’s next

  • Try a one-shot scrape → REST quickstart — runs a real scraper against a URL of your choice in 5 minutes.
  • Connect Claude → MCP quickstart — paste a single config block into Claude Desktop and Claude can scrape via natural language.
  • Build a scraper in the UI → Click Scrapers in the portal sidebar → Create new scraper → paste a URL → pick fields visually.

Key management

You can mint multiple keys (one per machine, one per script, one per LLM). Each one is independently revocable from the same Settings → API Keys page — click the trash icon next to any key. Revocation is immediate; the next request with that key returns 401.

If you want a key with different permissions later (e.g. an LLM_FULL key for Claude), just mint another one.

OverviewREST quickstart (5 min)